BananaLama

Actually I blame the fact that my poor little brain doesn’t do spelling hico.
It seems to be related to facial recognition that I have great difficulty with as well.
We all have strengths and weaknesses.
I am happy that the strengths I have more than makeup for finding spelling a magic and incomprehensible art.

Jack5

The US, England and even Australia opened their doors to Jews fleeing the Holocaust and we sat like a child with crossed arms at the end of the world refusing to participate.

As I posted earlier, 900 Jewish refugees were settled in New Zealand in the run-up to the Second World War. This is roughly in proportion to the numbers admitted to the United States, and probably to Australia. Let’s look at Du Plessis-Allan’s ancestral homeland, South Africa.

In 1939 South Africa’s population was 10,160,000. New Zealand’s was 1,641,600. Between 1933 and 1941, nearly 6,000 German Jews found refuge in South Africa.

South Africa, with 6.12 times population of NZ’s, admitted 6.66 times as many Jewish refugees in the 1930s. Not much different.

Cha goes on to say that many Jewish refugees who arrived in NZ were interned.

However, the source he quotes, the web site of the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, says:

The Aliens Emergency Regulations under which the Government could deport, intern, and set up authorities and tribunals to investigate and classify aliens came into being in October 1940 and the administrative machinery accompanying the regulations was set to work in the following months.

So this was during war time, when the British Empire still stood alone against the Nazis. The Jews held would have been German Jews. Not that interning them was right, but it was understandable.

The Holocaust Centre site says of the German, Italian and Japanese interned at Somes Island:

Government files recorded six Jewish Internationals [people of German origin who were opposed to the Nazis], including also two refugees from Nazi persecution with a Jewish background but with unspecified religion. Fellow internees, however, applied even wider categories of Jewishness. John Charles Klingenstein, one of the non-Jewish ‘iternationals’ at the camp, interned in 1941 despite the fact that, like his father, he was New Zealand born, compiled a list of eight internees he regarded as Jewish or of Jewish background.

A pretty small number, Cha.

As I posted earlier, with hindsight, NZ should have opened its doors to far more Jewish refugees in the 1930s. However, its admissions proportionately seem to have been much in line with those of Australia and the United States. New Zealand wasn’t alone in its attitude and actions.

Du Plessis-Allan’s asserted that New Zealand, towards 1930s Jewish refugees, “…sat like a child with crossed arms at the end of the world refusing to participate.”

cricko

Oh dear,
this was so much fun for a while.
Now it’s just boring.

Check out nostrosunsing @ 8.55 he just can’t help himself, despite himself.
This is the bloke who swore that he would never engage with me ever again.
Now he posts a long rant to me. Why ? Because………….like I said….

Jerk his chain, watch him jump.
Pavlovs dogs had more self control.

Same with Griff.
This bloke Griff thinks he scores a point by bastardising my moniker.
Thats his big win, in his mind.
Go figure. Still……..

Manolo

I think he’s fantastic. He’s my favorite president, hands down, of my lifetime. He’s been awesome this past year. Especially the rapid, one-after-another-after-another-after-another aspect of it. It’s almost like take no prisoners. His he-doesn’t-give-a-shit attitude has just been so cool.

It’s one of the longest-standing mysteries surrounding our nation’s cultural heritage – where exactly did our first settlers arrive from and how many stepped ashore?

A major study being planned by a leading genetic anthropologist aims to apply the latest DNA technology to ancient human remains originally recovered from Marlborough’s Wairau Bar, where some of the earliest evidence of New Zealand’s settlement has been found.

If Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith and her colleagues are able to extract enough DNA evidence from the 42 individual samples that were found at the site, what they discover could offer one of the biggest insights yet into our country’s history.

Their hope is to sequence as many genomes – the genetic jigsaw puzzle that makes each of us up – from the remains as possible.